This is my letter to Google following my 40 days of Lent without Google Searches. It really wasn’t easy and I do not recommend it. —————————————- Dear Google I thought I would share my story about Lent. I’m not a fan of religion and in no way am I willing to give up something like food or alcohol for some bizarre religious idea. But I like to join in with things still so last year I gave up paper clips for Lent which was fairly easy. This year I had the bright idea of giving up Google Searches. It was … Continued
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So Iain Dowie has been employed as Hull City manager. The man who helped relegate Newcastle, did relegate Charlton and got sacked shortly after, and recently got sacked at both Coventry and QPR. And is known for playing the long-ball game. Oh and is horrifically ugly. Oh and last time we tried to employ him, he turned us down, quote “it would be a slap in his families face if he were moved to Hull”. This was about 4 years ago, and we ended up with our saviour, Phil Brown instead. I wonder why Mr Dowie is now interested in … Continued
Sad news yesterday as it was announced that Phil Brown has been relieved of his managerial duties. I can understand it in some ways thanks to his bizarre substitutions, team choices and desire to defend when we are an attacking side. Or maybe he is far too implicated in the Paul Duffen scandal and had to go? However the time to get rid of him was in October, not now. I feel the need to post to celebrate his achievements. 1. Rescue us from almost certain relegation to League 1 in his first half season.2. Take us to Wembley for … Continued
My idea of a Facebook Friend, is someone that I have at least met, and have some vague connection with. Maybe someone I work with, a friend of a friend who joined us for drinks, etc etc. Or a girl I want sexual favours from. Or someone I just recognise from going out – as long as they are human beings. So I got home last night to find that not only a self-storage company had requested my friendship, but Expressgyms. A gym, for fuck’s sake. Do I look like I would ever have a drink with a gym? Go … Continued
08:20 – Me. I left my mother’s birthday card at home and had to go back for it, missing the bus.08:50 – The bus driver didn’t give me a free journey, I thought he might as the ticket looks like it wasn’t used yesterday.09:05 – No decent sized glasses left in the kitchen at work…though if I were on time…09:58 – The TV license people now know of our existence.12:02 – An e-mail at work that I did not want to see which ruins months of preparation, investigation and work.12:12 – Someone external not correctly reading my instructions, thereby causing … Continued
Now for those of you not so familiar with me, I like to write to complain or give advice. This time I thought I needed to advise the Conservative Party on their campaigning (I’m sure this went down well with career politicians and people who probably spent years studying politics, but hey at least I got a response. And only 10 days after I sent my message). ————————- I thought I should give you some feedback. Throughout my group of friends, of whom few care about politics like I do, they are generally aware of what damage Gordon Brown and … Continued
According to the Halifax, UK house prices fell 1.5% last month. You may wonder why after house prices started to rise last year. Some people are blaming stamp duty rises, others blaming snow. Nobody, at least that I have seen so far, seems to be blaming quantitative easing. This was the programme which deeply unsettled me when it was announced where the Bank of England pumped £200 billion into the economy. Yes, it got credit markets working somewhat, it reduced the cost of inter-bank lending and probably stopped the recession being more severe or longer. But I think this has … Continued
It has been a while. My previous have been much better than the one I am about to announce in shame, backdoor trance, animinimal and semi-detached house being three of the better ones. I am having a classification problem with certain tunes like Moda by Retro/Grade. Are they electro? Disco? Techno? House? Well they are all of them but I tended towards techno and disco more. So I thought, I need a new genre (for my own organisation sake – yes blah blah blah “its all house”, whatever, I am just trying to organise my brain). Anyway – techno disco … Continued
Well we have had two successful Gulf Wars – why not a second Falklands War? Back in 1982, Maggie was at the height of her unpopularity (though I would argue not strictly her fault, she had a backlog of really serious problems from the second half of the 1970’s to fix, and she was brave enough to fix things rather than placate people’s selfish interests)…anyway along came the Argentinians and invaded the Falklands. Maggie became a very popular Prime Minister almost overnight thanks to her tough action to defend our sovereignty. Now the Argentinians are talking tough about wanting sovereignty … Continued
I like efficiency. I really do. Whenever someone asks me what do I want to do with my career – part of my answer is to make processes more efficient. So imagine my current displeasure in the advice that a task I do 2-3 times a day on average, and takes about 5 minutes, now needs a labourious amount of extra paperwork attached to it, so each of these tasks will now take about 20-30 minutes. For reasons unexplained. I only have the instruction. No explanation is available to me. I am fighting it. But on the plus side, it … Continued